My complaints about the N1...

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1. The quality of the speaker on the ...

My complaints about the N1...

There aren't really a whole lot but I do have two issues that bother me a bit.

1. The quality of the speaker on the back of the phone is, in my opinion, significantly lower than the one on my old BlackBerry Curve 8320. When I'm using the car navigation app for example, I can barely hear the instructions. Speaker phone doesn't really impress me either. Is it only me or do others feel the same way?

2. The other thing that's bothering me is the battery life. The phone doesn't seem to hold a charge for very long. I do realize that I'm playing with it a bit more now than I will when I've had it for a while but the phone was fully charged this morning and when I got to work and pulled it out the battery showed some drain. According to the log it was due to cell stand by.

Any tips on what to do to increase battery life?

Other than that I really that phone. If only I wouldn't have to wipe it off ever 2.5 seconds...

default messaging app has a bug that causes the phone not to sleep. at least in mine and alot of other phones it did. to fix this download another messaging app like chomp sms or handcent. disable the default messaging notifications and set the one you downloaded as default.

another battery saver us to turn off gps when not in use. this one thing doubled my battery life.

As far as battery life goes, it seems after a few drains and recharges the battery life begins to improve. The first few days I was going 12-18 hours on a full charge, but I was also toying around with the phone quite a bit.

Right now under "normal use", the battery life is MUCH better. Currently, I'm at 74% after 14.25 hrs unplugged. Mind you, I turn off GPS, WIFI...well everthing except sync when I'm not using it. This was a pretty easy habit for me develop, especially since I put the power control widget on my home screen.

The battery works great. You have to know that Android run on Multi Task and alot of task need to be kill each time. Do a search on Market for Task Cleaner Pro, set almost all or all apps which you need to Auto Kill when the phone on standy mode.
Turn off GPS, Wifi if you using 3G. Mine last for the whole day with many calls, SMSs, MSN on 24/7 and still at 60% full.

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